New Technology Based Firms in the New Millennium Volume III

by During; Oakey; Kauser

• ISBN13: 9780080444024
• ISBN10: 0080444024
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-11
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

This tenth volume of papers emanating from the annual International High Technology Small Firms Conference represents a full decade of research and policy relevant papers on innovation and growth problems of New Technology-based Firms (NTBf). Because this series has become the major vehicle for publication among the best international researchers working on the formation and subsequent growth problems of NTBfs, it represents an authoritative voice on NTBf development problems. Topics covered in this volume include strategy, spin offs - their contribution to NTBf growth and the problems they encounter during the traumatic "spin off" process, the current hot topic of clusters and their role in enhancing NTBf formation and growth, networking and global issues since many NTBfs are truly "born global."

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Part I. Introduction
1. The Emerging Research Agenda	3	(6)
Wim During, Ray Oakey and Saleema Kauser
Part II. Strategy
2. Leadership - Realising the Potential in High Technology Small Firms	9	(22)
Nicholas O'Regan and Abby Ghobadian
3. Measuring E-Business-Adoption in SME	31	(24)
Marijke Van Der Veen
4. The Business Platform Model: A Practical Tool for Understanding and Analysing Firms in Early Development	55	(14)
Per Davidsson and Magnus Klofsten
Part III. "Spin off" Firms
5. Entrepreneurs, New Technology Firms and Networks: Experiences from Lone Starters, Spin-Offs and Incubatees in the Dutch ICT Industry 1990-2000	69	(20)
Willem Hulsink and Tom Elfring
6. Virtual Incubation: The Case of the VVE of the Comunidad de Madrid	89	(12)
Jaap Van Tilburg, Cheo Machin, Peter Van Der Sijde and Felix Bellido
7. The Formation of High-Tech University Spinouts Through Joint Ventures	101	(16)
Ajay Vohora, Mike Wright and Andy Lockett
8. The Netherlands Life Sciences Sector Biopartner: Stimulating Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences	117	(14)
Haifen Hu, Wim During, Aard Groen and Nettie Buitelaar
Part IV. Clusters
9. Overcoming Learning Uncertainties in the Innovation Process: The Contribution of Clustering to Firms' Innovation Performance	131	(22)
Paul Benneworth and David Charles
10. Close Encounters: Evidence of the Potential Benefits of Proximity to Local Industrial Clusters	153	(22)
Thelma Quince and Hugh Whittaker
11. On the Role of High-Technology Small Firms in Cluster Evolution	175	(20)
Olav R. Spilling and Jartrud Steinsli
Part V. Networking
12. The Competitiveness of New Technology-Based Firms: The Contribution of Trade Associations	195	(18)
Mario Cugini and Sarah Cooper
13. Organizational Influences Upon the Development of Professional Expertise in SMEs in the Netherlands	213	(34)
Beatrice I.J.M. Van Der Heijden
14. Examining the Mental Models of Entrepreneurs from Born Global and Gradual Globalizing Firms	247	(16)
Paula D. Harveston, David Osborne and Ben L. Kedia
15. Knowledge Transfer and Policy Imperatives: Science in a Devolved Scotland	263	(14)
D. Jane Bower and Davena Rankin
Part VI. Global Issues
16. Born Global Approach to the Internationalization of High Technology Small Firms - Antecedents and Management Challenges	277	(18)
Sami Saarenketo
17 Configurations of International Knowledge-Intensive SMEs: Can the Eclectic Paradigm Provide a Sufficient Theoretical Framework?	295	(16)
Tranar Almor and Niron Hashai
18. Internationalisation of High Technology Small Firms in Portugal	311
António Teixeira and Manuel Laranja